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during the War of the American Revolution, 1775-83. 597 the following corps of artillery, cavalry, and infantry, to wit: Colonel Hazen's regiment, 2 companies; Hartley's, 3; Gist's, 2 ; Grayson's, 2 or 3; Rifle, 4; officers discharged by colonel Brodhead at Fort Pit, and the men incorporated with Brodhead's regiment of Pennsylvania troops, but some of them have since deserted and joined the Maryland line; Ger man, 4, now attached to the Maryland line about one company, deser tion and term of service expiring must account for the remainder; Fore man's, 2 or 3, attached to the Jersey troops; Patten's, 2, attached to the Pennsylvania line; artillery, 3, incorporated with Harrison's Virginia regiment; Moylan's horse, 3 ; Baylor's horse, 1 ; Pulaski's, 1 or 2; Leers, 1 or 2. In all 30 or 34 companies. Your committee are informed, that many of the men in the said companies were enlisted for the war, and now remain in such of the above corps as have been continued on the establishment, and others of the reduced corps are now attached to the line of the state in which they have respectively served; and your committee are of opinion, that congress should be requested to order, that all the men, now in service, raised in this state for any of the above companies, be returned and annexed to the line of this state." 2ND CANADIAN OR HAZEN'S C0L. MOSES HAZEN, COMMISSIONED 22 JANUARY, 1776. This Regiment was intended to be raised in Canada and for some time was called the 2nd Canadian Later it was recruited in the United States. It was also called ‘Congress Own.' RESOLVES OF CONTINENTAL CONGRESS 19 APRIL, 1781 "Resolved, That it be, and hereby is recommended to the states of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, to make good the depreciation of the monthly pay of the officers and soldiers belonging to colonel Moses Hazen's regiment that are considered as a part of the quota of the respective states aforesaid, in the same manner they have made good the depreciation to the officers and soldiers in the battalion belonging to the lines of those states respectively." Non-commissioned Officers and Privates of Col. Hazen's Regiment, belonging to the State of Maryland. |
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